Secretary of State
Vermont State Archives

Official Fee Schedule for Copying Public Records

THIS IS A WORLD WIDE WEB PUBLICATION OF THE VERMONT SECRETARY OF STATE
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The following fees are the maximum that may be charged by state agencies for copying the public record where the statutes do not provide otherwise.

These also are the maximum fees that may be charged by municipalities where the statutes do not provide otherwise and where the legislative body of the municipality has not set it own fee schedule.

  1. For staff time involved in physically duplicating a record, $.23 per minute after the first 30 minutes.

  2. For senior-level information technology specialists' time spent extracting data from databases or performing similar tasks necessary to comply with a request to create a new public record, $.41 per minute.

  3. For any other staff time for which cost can be charged and collected under this section, $.30 per minute.

  4. For photocopies,$.04 per single-sided page, $.06 per double-sided page for pages up to 8.5 by 14 inches.

  5. For computer-generated paper copies, $.02 per page for pages up to 8.5 by 14 inches.

  6. For computer diskettes, $.88 each for 3.5-inch diskettes, $.69 each for 5.25-inch diskettes.

  7. For compact discs, $22.08 each for write-once CDS, $124.58 for re-writable CDS.

  8. For audio tapes, $1.25 each.

  9. For video tapes, $2.25 each.


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